Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 2nd ed., 
1885, Butler Co.

JAMES T. RIVES, Butler County, was born in DeKalb County, Tenn., March 
16, 1840.  His father, Richard Rives, was a native of Virginia, and 
emigrated when a young man, with his father, to east Tennessee, where he 
married Rebecca, daughter of James Taylor, of White County.  Mr. Rives 
came to Kentucky in 1853, and bought a farm on Mud River, in Butler 
County, where he resided and followed farming until his death, January 
23, 1885, at the age of seventy-three years.  His widow still survives 
aged about seventy-six years.  They had nine children, of whom James T. 
is the fourth.  The latter remained with his parents until September 21, 
1861, when he joined the Federal army; enlisted in Company E, 
Twenty-sixth Regiment, Kentucky Volunteers, in the command of Col. 
Burbridge.  He was engaged in the battle of Shiloh, where he received a 
severe gun-shot wound; was afterward engaged in the battle of Nashville, 
and numerous other battles and skirmishes; was discharged at the close 
of the war at Salisbury, N. C., August 10, 1865; then returned to his 
home in Butler County, and for five years followed farming; then sold 
the farm and bought a hotel property in Rochester, where he now resides.  
In July, 1865, while home on veteran furlough, Mr. Rives married Almina 
J. Williams, of Muhlenburgh [sic] County, Ky.  They are the parents of 
six children, four of whom are living: Rupert S., Herbert E., Alberta A. 
and Ina B.  Mr. Rives is, politically, a Republican.  He is a member of 
the order A.F. & A.M., Rochester Lodge, No. 270, and has held the 
offices of warden and deacon.  Mr. and Mrs. Rives are active and 
consistent members of the Christian Church.

Rives Taylor Williams
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DeKalb-TN VA White-TN Muhlenberg-KY

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